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pinball, star trek, punk rock.

i run iScored -- www.iScored.info

he/him

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unless you pay them money, they will mark your posts -- posts you're making on YOUR PAGE targeted at people who explicitly marked themselves as FANS OF YOU -- as spam, and permanently remove any URLs you post. Ask me how I know.

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the answer is forums (and discord servers) for specialized communities. The generalized hubs catering to everyone have all failed, or limp on as miserable hellholes.

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communities of specific interest still exist, though, and thrive. I'm a pinball fanatic, and there is an enormous community on Pinside.com, as well as many active Discord servers for subcommunities within that fandom. Specialization is where it started, and where it's rapidly - RAPIDLY - swinging.

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There is most definitely an algorithm here. I've heard Bluesky devs say that the "no algorithm" thing is a myth. It's just less pernicious.

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... using social media to tell my users about new releases and new features, but otherwise I just kinda have to hope the product's quality and usefulness is enough to keep people speaking positively about it, because that seems to be the only thing that moves units for me.

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...something nice about it on their stream while using it, or when a large arcade mentions it, or when a person hosts a large party and shows it off to their friends. I've paid for Facebook ads, and seen practically no ROI there, or anywhere else in terms of paid promotion. So I just keep ...

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i merely run a pretty rinky-dink pinball high score app, but here's what I've seen: Social media posts are good way to communicate into to existing customers, but a useless way to attract new ones. Word of mouth is king. Sales come in bunches, and happen when a streamer says ...

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that's a moronic view. the courts never do ANYTHING for women in these situations.

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and things have gotten so much worse since!

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It was mostly those elders being ignorant pieces of shit refusing to vaccinate or mask. Old people are disproportionately stupid shitty bigots. But sure let’s put them in charge.

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5a...

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I hope he puts a basket on King Charles’ head and steals a wheel of cheese.

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Ableist, yes. But most old people fucking suck. Most of them are shitty stupid bigots who are absolutely mentally and physically incapable of running a country.

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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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So business as usual (but worse, somehow).

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You’re not wrong. This is absolutely put out by people who investigated and publicized it because they are disgusting bigots and they hate him. Unfortunately, the accusers do seem credible, though, and hating the source doesn’t exonerate Gaiman.

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People are so fucking terrible at recognizing obvious lies or discerning between stupid-ass easily-debunked conspiracy theories and the truth. Just wait until those same dingdongs can dismiss literally anything they don’t like as AI generated. All new levels of “humanity is doomed”.

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Much appreciated. Can’t wait.

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I’m sad that local governments in progressive/urban areas haven’t been more aggressive about subsidizing charging options at apartment complexes (Or maybe they are and I’m unaware?). A Federal program could benefit SO MANY, but that’d require an administration with both vision and good intent.

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I’ve been saying this for a decade, and am so dismayed that such a simple problem that is already 90% solved (electricity is everywhere!) has seen so little headway. Not that I would expect landlords to spontaneously do anything without a money reason, but that’s what govt incentives are for!

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Our fridge died and it was cheaper to replace it than repair it. My partner was upset, because she was like “we just bought it like 6 years ago!” We bought it in 2005.

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Well, for one thing, how do you even know the guy and the bank even exist? You could be a brain in a vat, and everything you perceive could be artificial stimulus fed to you by scientists. We here at bill.com/pay are committed to

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LMAO even the blurb phrasing implies the GUN had an accident, not the cop. This is an all-timer for cowardly passive voice copaganda.

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Looks like a huge improvement.

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lol so dumb and all but “Chubby Checker” is the perfect name for a dick measuring app.

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This isn’t an onion article, dipshit.

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Would have worked better than the coward doddering dipshit we got instead.

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I know it’s very tech bro twitter incel to call people NPCs, but Biden Administration tactics remind me of when I play strategy games and set my cpu opponents to “novice”, and they just fart around doing the most basic simulation of playing the game while I very obviously tool up to murder them.

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They have been cowards every single day so far. Why would you expect them not to be cowards today?

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(Which is fucking ironic given they were comparing him to Shatner, the Human Hairpiece)

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The problem is he’d fail the requirement that a candidate be at least 35 years old because he’d be a newborn.

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If you’re a Star Trek fan, give Lower Decks a chance. It’s heartfelt and sincere and fundamentally GETS Trek better than any series since the TNG era. Clearly written by people who LOVE the franchise.

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All of Lower Decks season one is up for free on the P+ YouTube for a limited time (USA).

A great way to intro a friend to the Cerritos!

youtu.be/jTQnkijDtRQ?...

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Up there with “I’ll never watch a BALD captain!”

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People were so scared this would be Rick and Morty or Family Guy in space but it’s the opposite. It constantly subverts modern expectations by jump-scaring the audience with unexpected outbursts of affirmation, positivity, and acceptance.

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Literally my favorite novel.

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How do we get this man on the ballot

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How do we get this man on the ballot

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That was in the first one.

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Jesus Christ the onion on fire tonight.

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I haven’t watched it, but I’ve watched YouTube videos about it (either Kurtis Connor or film cooper, I forget) and it is WILD. And gross. Mostly gross. Don’t want to seem like I’m endorsing it.

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Sure, when you frame a thing from its most ridiculous extreme, I guess it’s easy to justify being a dick.

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